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Things to do When Transitioning Between Regular and Honors English
- · Do not get behind on your reading! Honors moves at a faster pace and you most likely won’t be able to catch up, unless you spend your entire weekend reading it.
- · Highlight important quotes as you read because there is a lot of quote identification that you will need to know. Know who says it, and who they say it to! Also, take notes while you read.
- · For Socratic seminars, make sure you have detailed notes because it makes you talk more during them. Use textual evidence and always speak up during them. Don’t just repeat what other people say either, say something new.
- · If your teacher gives you a packet to answer questions in while you’re reading, but says it’s optional, DO THEM. Most likely these questions are a guide for your test.
- · Actually read your book and think critically about it because we get a lot of pop reading quizzes the day after we read. Don’t be surprised if your teacher gives you one or two pop quizzes a week during a book unit.
- · Writing is everything in honors. You have to make an effort to improve and adapt your writing styles to your teachers liking.
- · Write your thesis as an open statement, not a list. You will learn to do this in honors next year and your thesis statements should stay like this for the rest of the year.
- · Analyze everything. Notice the figurative language in reading and writing and make sure to include figurative language in your creative writing papers.
- · If you need help on a paper or don’t understand what is going on in a book, go in for help. Just because you’re in an honors class doesn’t mean your teacher won’t help you.
- · Speak up in class in the beginning of the year because it shows the teacher that even though you came from a regular class, you know what you’re doing and you deserve to be in that honors class!
GOOD LUCK
NEXT YEAR!!!
-MK
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